See Also: Ferber, Edna(encyclopedia)
Edna (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Dame Edna(dictionary)
Edna, Dame(dictionary)
Edna's Restaurant(tourism)
Millay, Edna St. Vincent(encyclopedia)
Proulx, (Edna) Annie(encyclopedia)
Everage, Dame Edna(dictionary)

Ferber, Edna (sh)




born Aug. 15, 1887, Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S.
died April 16, 1968, New York, N.Y.

U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Ferber began her career at age 17 as a reporter in Wisconsin. Her early stories were collected in Emma McChesney & Co. (1915) and other volumes. She won critical acclaim for such novels as So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize) and Show Boat (1926), which, with music by Jerome Kern, became a seminal work of the American musical theatre. Among her later works is the novel Giant (1952; film, 1956). Her works offer a compassionate, lively portrait of middle-class Midwestern America.